Postal History

Exhibitor: Richard Ashton

This exhibit is an extract from my Postal History collection of Guernsey. The earliest item is of 1799 to Thomas Batt in London. Batt had extensive sugar estates in Grenada. There are early variations of the concave and scroll \'GUERNSEY\' postmark. In the later period is a large entire from London with a pair of the 1841 2d and a circular \'TOO-LATE G.P.O.\' My particular favourite is a postcard of 1906 where a young sweetheart invites her boyfriend to meet together. In her naivete she addresses the card care of her swaine's mother!

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: Bryan Elliston

A study of the various handstamps issued to the Guernsey Post Office to identify incoming items of mail which were to be classified as Ship Letters.

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: Steve Power

Various postal rates are illustrated to different world-wide destinations, with all covers being tied by the Jersey duplex cancellation. The duplex cancellation sub-types are also explained.

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: Nick Stuart

The display shows examples of the Postage Due Marks and Explanatory/Instructional Marks (Taxe and T marks and 'Liable to Letter Rate' marks) used in Guernsey from the 1800s to 1980s. It is in three sections: Postage Dues on local/inland mail; Postage Dues on overseas mail and Explanatory Charge Marks

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: Richard Flemming

Sixteen sheets of mail that was received in Jersey or sent from Jersey at ship letter rate

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: John Goose

This exhibit shows the various FDCs that were used in Guernsey, the different machine and hand cancellations on that day at the main Post Office with examples from sub Post Offices

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: David Winnie

These handstamps were issued to minor or receiving offices - who normally had no handstamps in the 1840s - so that the source of posting could be identified on letters. However, the adhesives had to be cancelled only at main Post Offices and the Postmaster General\'s 1853 rules required that the handstamp should only be applied to the back of letters.

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: Julian Bagwell

There are several elements of Guernsey's postal history prior to the introduction of adhesive stamps. Some mail was carried privately, both before and after the first post office on the island opened in 1794. After then, mail was marked with cartouches and scrolls until the introduction of datestamps in 1830. For a period after 1840, mail without adhesive stamps was permitted and carried hand or stamped rate markings. The display shows examples from all there periods together with two rare items carrying Weymouth markings, applied to Guernsey mail that was otherwise unmarked, to distinguish it from ship mail.

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: Robert Corden

The entry aims to cover the period from the post office being set up in the Islands in 1794, the uniform postal tariff, the occupation and liberation, an example from the regional area and ending with Postal Independence (the amnesty period for the use of pre independence stamps)

Class: Postal History

Exhibitor: Richard Flemming

Sixteen sheet display showing handstamps applied to mail arriving in France from the Channel Islands 1755 - 1839. These handstamps would have been applied at the French port of arrival.

Class: Postal History